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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. Transbase

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/spark.apache.org/­sqlwww.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncCirconus LLC.Apache Software FoundationStardog-UnionTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20182017201420101987
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022V0.10.20, January 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.3.0, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++ScalaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes
Triggersnononoyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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